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Postscript: Conversations on Politics and Political Science
Co-hosts of New Books in Political Science, Lilly Goren and Susan Liebell, interview authors who bring their expertise to contemporary political events. Postscript hosts the experts on mainstream media — with a little more time for detail and nuance!
May 19, 2025
Calibrating the Outrage: A Conversation about Democratic Erosion, Legality, and Politics
We’ve been focusing on the dynamics of democratic backsliding in the United States and beyond. In this episode of Postscript: Conversations on Politic…
May 12, 2025
Constitutional Crisis or a Stalemate?
At the 100 day mark of Donald Trump’s second term as president, the political scientists at Bright Line Watch released their 25th report on the state…
April 21, 2025
Postscript: Political Scientists Ring Alarm Bell Over Trump’s Second Administration
After being sworn in as the 47th president, President Donald Trump quickly altered American government – and political discourse. He issued a slew of …
April 2, 2025
Collective Action to Support Students at American Colleges and Universities
A coalition of educators and allies has come together to push back against a variety of different kinds of attacks on higher education and students at…
March 24, 2025
Not a Matter of Left or Right: Historians Fighting Censorship
The executive directors of the American Historical Association and Organization of American Historians join the podcast to talk about the effects of h…
March 14, 2025
Donald Trump is Erasing History
On January 20th, Donald Trump issued an executive order entitled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the…
March 13, 2025
How Trump’s Executive Order Contradicts Birthright Citizenship
Birthright citizenship is established in the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution – yet Donald Trump’s recent …
March 10, 2025
All talk and no action? How political scientists respond to racism and authoritarianism?
After the murder of George Floyd, the United States had the largest protests in the nation’s history. Other public and private responses included corp…
February 24, 2025
How to Fight Back
Shortly after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 47th American president, he issued 37 executive orders and, subsequently, the Trump administration h…
December 16, 2024
Postscript: Violence, Consent, and Coercion in American Football
Last week, the press focused on what the press repeatedly characterized as an “ugly” fight between American college football players that broke out af…
November 14, 2024
Postscript: Reflections on the 2024 American Presidential Election
Many pundits are rushing to judgement – claiming to identify the “one” reason that Donald Trump won or Kamala Harris lost the 2024 Presidential Electi…
September 13, 2024
Harris, Trump, and the Politics of Presidential Debates
In June, a presidential debated ended the candidacy of incumbent President Joe Biden. On September 10th, Vice President Kamala Harris and Former Presi…
August 26, 2024
The Democrats Have a Party: DNC2024
On Thursday, Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination in Chicago. Lilly and Susan talk to two presidential politics sch…
August 5, 2024
Race, Gender, and the 2024 Presidential Election Cycle
Vice President Kamala Harris is poised to become the Democratic Party’s nominee for president. The path to this nomination and the generation election…
July 25, 2024
Changing Dynamics in the Presidential Race, 2024
The Republican Party held its nominating convention a week ago in Milwaukee, formally nominating former President Donald Trump as the standard-bearer …
July 1, 2024
Does the June POTUS Debate Matter?
On Thursday, June 27th, President Joe Biden and Trump debated for 90 minutes without a live audience or the usually provided by the Commission on Pres…
June 24, 2024
Unpacking the 2024 U.S. Presidential Debate, Conventions, and Polling
The first presidential debate will be held on June 27th, 2024 and the Republicans are heading to Milwaukee (a city Donald Trump recently called “horri…
June 20, 2024
The Supreme Court’s Decisions on Bump Stocks and Mifepristone
In this episode of our occasional series, Postscript, we focus on the Supreme Court’s recently published decisions in two cases, about guns and aborti…
June 17, 2024
Previewing the 2024 Presidential Race
States are holding primaries. The Democrats and Republicans will convene in July and August but it has already been decided that the presidential race…
September 18, 2023
How Firearms Fuel Domestic Violence in the US
In 2019, nearly two-thirds of domestic violence homicides in the United States were committed with a gun. On average, three women are killed by a curr…